The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
A JACKSONVILLE CRASH.
sIGMUND RITzwo .LER FAILS FOR
S77.42S.

Three New York Firms Creditors for
Large Amounts Death of Rabbi
Simon Simons-Forger Tillman Held
in 5000 Bail to Answer For His
Crime.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Dec. 2l.-Sig-
mund Ritzwoller, the largest individual
wholesale and retail dry goods and clothing
merchant of this city and State, to-day as
signed to w. B. Barnett, of the Bank of
Jacksonville. His assets consist of a three
story brick store and its contents, account
books, ETC., lands in and around the city,
and lands IN Alachua, Columbia, Lafayette
and other counties The total value of the
assets is unknown, but is thought to be
small His liabilities, according to the
schedule filed, amounts to ST. ,42S 05, nearly
all of which is due in Eastern cities. The
home creditors named in the schedule, are
preferred as follows: Clarrissa Ritzwoler,
50 022 %; Bank of Jacksonville, $500;
A. SolaI'y 1906, C. Fl. Jones & Bro. s275,
Ne,0s- Herald SIS, II. Drew 81 Bro. $45, G.
r. Foster & Co. $3.50, DR.. r. p Daniel
1925, G. w. Dacosta $2S. The largest
amounts North are: Claflin & Co. So, 116,
Snedeker & Boyton 81 $50, Z. S. Jaffray &c
Co. Sl,011, all of New York; Armstrong
Cater & Co., Baltimore. 1851. ALI the
other amounts are below 81, 200. Sixty-one
persons are named in the schedule.
DEATH OF A RABBI.
Simon Simons, a Jewish Rabbi, and a
prominent merchant of Monticello, died
there Sunday of apoplexy, aged IS. Mr..
Simons was well known in Savannah, and
IL. Ien
there at one time.
d. A. Tillman, the negro teacher at May
port who forged DR.. w II. Babcock's name
TO school certificates, securing SOS, was up
before Justice Magill this morning. The
forgeries were remarkable for their clumsi-
ness, and it seemed queer that anyone
should be SO readily imposed on. He
Tillman says he is from New jersey and
once taught school at Columbia, s. c.,
where probably he obtained the blanks
which he filled out and to which he forged
the names of Babcock & Mickler. The
blanks are worn and much Soiled, showing
age and much usage.
A meeting of the newly elected city of
ficials will take place tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock, at which time the committee
appointed to secure counsel will make their
report.
The engine and boiler for the Sub Tropical
arrived this morning. They are from the
Pittsburg Iron Works and weighed over
1900 pounds.
END OF THE EPIDEMIC.
The epidemic of yellow fever in Tampa
has been officially declared at an end There
have been no cases of yellow fever in two
or three weeks The surrounding counties
removed their quarantine Gordon several
days ago, but refugees were forbidden by
the Tampa City Council to return
till all danger was past and the
city had been thoroughly disinfected and
put in good sanitary condition. Trains
with sleeping cars attached now run as they
did before the epidemic, making connections
with coastwise steamers for Key West and
Havana. There is no semblance of any
contagious or epidemic disease in Florida or
the islands of the State.
o. A. Burlington, of Green Cove Springs,
was dangerously wounded by a negro
named Bran this afternoon. No particu-
lars of the affair have yet reached here.
Sumter county went dry to-day, at least
50 the meagre returns now indicate.